Why the getLastModified did not return a java.util.Date?

[Andrea Francia]

The FtpFile#getLastModified() method returns a long, why not a 
java.util.Date?

public interface FtpFile {
   /**
    * Get last modified time.
    */
   long getLastModified();
}

The behavior is not specified in the case the file does not exists.

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Andrea Francia
http://andreafrancia.blogspot.com/2008/07/colinux-linux-dentro-windows.html